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> other people think my email address is their email address, This is the worst kind of spam. There is someone who enters my email for all his electronic recei

• jackhack 7y ago
  It could be a result of autocomplete. Entered/pasted once, auto-complete forever. In this anonymous person's defense, he might not know how to turn it off or change it. (With most browsers, it's buried down in a menu.) Meanwhile, just add KMart.com to your blocked domain list. that's 50% of the problem solved. speaking of using others' numbers, I use 867-5309* for the shopper-loyalty-card number at every retailer that asks for one (in exchange for discounts). I think that dozens of others must use this number as well, as the supermarket receipt sometimes shows totals of $10,000-20,000 per week for "my" account. *For those born after the 1980s, the song "Jenny (867-5309)" was a hit for the band Tommy TuTone and received significant airplay. It was a catchy tune, and the phone number was the chorus. As such, it's an easy number to remember.
  • JRKrause 7y ago
    I am continually impressed how often this works, even at small obscure grocery stores the pattern of (local area code)-867-5309 will always be registered.
    • fancy_pantser 7y ago
      I personally use it as a grocery store gas discount code when I'm in areas that have chains offering it. The receipts usually show thousands of dollars per month worth of "points". Gives me a self-organizing-system chuckle every time.
  • nsilvestri 7y ago
    At some stores (Rite Aid comes to mind) that number is disabled. 281-330-8004, from a song by rapper Mike Jones, works nearly as well as Jenny's.
  • autoexec 7y ago
    I use an email address @example.com when people ask for an email address unless I know they are going to send me a confirmation email I need to accept. Most of the time it's accepted just fine.
  • Izkata 7y ago
    Late 90s/early 2000s, 773-202-5862 - Luna (Carpet/flooring company. The last four numbers are L-U-N-A, which they still use in a different number.)
• OrgNet 7y ago
  I used to give my old phone number to companies I don't care about... but that number finally got reassigned to a someone else (a company)... I wonder how many calls they got.
• _delirium 7y ago
  > I am not sure if he's purposefully enter a "fake" email or mistyping his own. I finally figured out the reason for one person who's been using my email address for all kinds of things for years: his is easy to mistake for mine when being given over the phone. We have the same gmail address except that mine is first.j.lastname@ and his is first.jay.lastname@.
• fortran77 7y ago
  I got my lastname @ gmail.com back in the early days of gmail. So now everyone with that lastname uses this email address. I get party invitations, venmos, confidential hospital forms, tax returns, you name it.
  • S_A_P 7y ago
    Same here I got my gmail in 2002 and used first.last@gmail.com. There was someone who signed up as firstlast@gmail.com which as you may know gmail doesn’t require a “.”. There is another guy who uses last.first@gmail.com and consistently forgets to use that permutation.
    • londons_explore 7y ago
      if you have first.last@gmail.com, then someone else cannot sign up as firstlast@gmail.com. Gmail addresses are required to be unique after all dots are removed.
    • jedberg 7y ago
      > Same here I got my gmail in 2002 Pretty impressive given that it launched in 2004. > and used first.last@gmail.com. There was someone who signed up as firstlast@gmail.com That's not possible. Gmail won't let you sign up for an already in use email and they strip the dots before they check.
      • JetSpiegel 7y ago
        Maybe that wasn't implemented in 2002.
  • stevewillows 7y ago
    I rarely use twitter, but I've got @stevew -- and I get a lot of truncated mentions about Woz and others.